Overview :In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly free... Read More
Overview :Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott'... Read More
Overview :Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the C... Read More
Overview :The secession of the southern states from the Union was not merely a culmination of certain events; it was also the beginning of the trial o... Read More
Overview :Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, d... Read More
Overview :The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to sla... Read More
Overview :Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 186... Read More
Overview :Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional wounds, many of which s... Read More
Overview :Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned histori... Read More